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From: 551rcg@hound.UUCP (R.GANNS)
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: who says pets should run loose?
Message-ID: <484@hound.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-May-84 11:37:14 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 11 11:37:14 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 12-May-84 11:17:17 EDT
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        With all this talk about pet identification, I have not yet
        noticed any mention of the argument against letting pets run
        loose, which I consider the height of irresponsibility.

        Animals running loose are greatly at risk, will probably be
        injured and sick more often, have shorter life spans, and make
        hazards and nuisances out of themselves.

        It's too easy to rationalize an irresponsible attitude in the
        name of letting the animal "be free" or "do its own thing".
        As one who has seen the mangled and slowly dying bodies of 
        many pets lying alonside of the road and has had to deal with
        the anxiety and expense of patching up pets hit by cars, mauled
        in fights, quilled by porcupines, shot by angry ranchers, 
        dying on their feet from starvation & disease, etc.,
        I urge current and would-be pet owners to take a second hard
        look at how they should manage their animals.

                                          Rich Ganns